Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries (Amendment) Act, 2019

No: 1 Dated: Jan, 14 2019

Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951

Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries (Amendment) Act, 2019

(Act No. 1 of 2019)

    An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951.

    BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. Short title and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries (Amendment) Act, 2019.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 13th day of August 2018.

2. Insertion of new section 12-D Tamil Nadu Act XX of 1951:- After section 12-C of the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951, the following section shall be inserted, namely:--

“12-D. Railway fare for former Members.—Every person, who had been a Member of the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council, shall be eligible for railway fare for his journey in two-tier air-conditioned class from his usual place of residence to Chennai for participating in the Independence day and Republic day Celebrations and for his return journey, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed:

Provided that railway fare under this section shall not be paid to any former Member of the Legislative Assembly or the Legislative Council, who is in receipt of free railway pass issued by the Central Government or by any other authority for having been a Member of Parliament.”.

3. Repeal and savings:- (1) The Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2018 is hereby repealed

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the said Act, as amended by this Act.